John Trussell

[1] The elder of the two sons of Henry Trussell by his wife Sarah Kettlewood, he was baptised in London in 1575); his family's background was at Billesley, Warwickshire.

[2] Working on the history of Winchester, Trussell completed in 1642 a manuscript Touchstone of Tradition, whereby the certaintie of occurrences in this kingdom and elsewhere, before characters or letters were invented, is found out.

[2] The manuscript was among those in the library of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet by 1744, and was purchased by Winchester city council in 1974.

[1] Trussell also contributed, with Michael Drayton and others, to the Annalia Dubrensia (1636) edited by Robert Dover.

[2] Trussell married Elizabeth Collis, widow of Gratian Patten, and left three daughters.